Crows really enjoy using tools, researchers find. New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study. By NALA ROGERS | INSIDE SCIENCE . August 3, 2019, 8:39 AM. 6:00.

New Caledonian crows are famous for their ability to craft sticks into hooked tools, which they use to probe for larvae and insects hidden in trees. But why they do this has been anyone’s guess ...

Two species on Earth are known to use hook-shaped tools: humans and New Caledonian crows. And now, for the first time, the people have caught the birds using them on camera.

We can see the birds feeding just using their beaks, interacting with baby crows, and using tools. What's especially remarkable is that we now have solid evidence that crows make hooked tools.

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Exeter have used CSI-style analysis to reveal the huge benefits conferred on New Caledonian crows through tool use. Their results give hard evidence ...

Crows are highly intelligent. They can recognize faces, hold grudges, and even recognize cars. Crows cache food, and will move it if another creature sees them hiding it. They use tools, and ...

According to Dr. Christian Rutz, whose University of St Andrews team was the first to identify species-wide tool use in Hawaiian crows in 2016, these island environments enabled these species to ...

Crows are very social, have terrific memories and can use tools. May 12, 2021 More than 4 years ago Crows aren’t just natural cleanup crews that devour dead animals or discarded food.

Besides being dark and mysterious, crows are extremely intelligent birds. So smart, in fact, that it might be a little bit scary. Even though their brains are the size of a human thumb, their ...

They use tools, and fashion tools from twigs, forming them into the right shape for the job, making hooked tools to snag food. Most of the corvid family, which includes ravens, jackdaws, and jays, as ...